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Big Data may be the problem, but Hadoop is the answer. Hadoop is an open-source software framework that enables applications to run across large arrays of nodes, accessing petabytes' worth of data. It was originally created by Doug Cutting to...
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Here's an area in need of great process improvement: Many IT and data managers feel that there is a wide disconnect between the individuals charged with ensuring database security and their corporate management. While database professionals and managers are expected...
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A new IBM study of more than 3,000 global CIOs shows that businesses are embracing strategies including analytics, cloud, and business process management to grow their businesses.Sixty percent of the CIOs surveyed see BPM as a critical priority this year,...
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The year 2010 was certainly a turning point for service oriented architecture, especially since it has moved out of the IT experimentation phase and into the practical business phase. During this time, we've sought to bring examples of SOA in...
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The goal and vision behind service oriented architecture is that of shared services, in which multiple business units inside and outside the firewall can access functions and applications needed to complete business processes. Getting everyone across the enterprise in sync...
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SOA has matured to its next level, but is still being held back by misconceptions. There's a number of fables that have grown up around SOA, and at the same time, there are some stock objections that really make no...
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SOA and cloud computing are joined at the hip, and the best practices of one are the same that should be applied to the other. That's the point raised by David Linthicum, CTO at Bick Group, noted author, and fellow...
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Yes, you read that right -- "Camel." Read on to see if we're referring to the animal that holds a lot of water or an SOA initiative that holds a lot of water...ebizQ and TechTarget will be hosting a jam-packed,...
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HealthNow New York, one of the Northeast US's leading health insurance and employee benefits companies, deployed a data-services oriented architecture that has shortened the time-to-delivery of business critical data from months to days for Business Intelligence (BI) and other applications...
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In this blog (formerly known as "SOA in Action"), Joe McKendrick examines how BPM and related business and IT approaches can promote business transformation.

Joe McKendrick

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. Joe speaks frequently at industry events and Webcasts, authors ZDNet's SOA blog and serves as lead analyst and author of Evans Data Corp.'s highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services survey. Joe writes a regular column for Database Trends & Applications, and has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for a variety of user groups. In a previous life, he served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields. View more